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Our mission: To increase the national and international visibility of the University of Michigan School of Public Health and to foster connections between the school and its various constituencies.

Terri Mellow, Director, twm@umich.edu, 734-764-8094

Laura Bailey, Public Relations Representative, baileylm@umich.edu, 734-764-1552; 734-647-1848;

Leslie Stainton, Editor of Findings magazine, stainton@umich.edu, 734-936-1246

Mary Beth Lewis, Web Communications Specialist, lewismb@umich.edu, 734-615-2279

Emily Tims, Administrative Assistant, timse@umich.edu, 734-615-5630

Office of Communications, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
Telephone: 734-615-5630; Fax: 734-763-5455

SPH Display Cases

Currently on view for Fall 2009:

Display Case Policy and Exhibit Application (PDF)

Dimensions of Cases:

Event Publicity Tips

When publicizing an event or opportunity via e-mail at SPH, please be considerate about the file size and the number of announcements you send to the school e-mail groups sph.faculty, sph.staff, sph.students, and sph.all. Usually one message will be enough to reach people who are likely to act upon your information. More than that risks becoming a nuisance.

To get your news out:


1. Submit events to the SPH online calendar. (This will broadcast via RSS to subscribers and the SPH Twitter feed, AND it will generate a URL for your event that you can link to.)

2. Post your event to the SPH Facebook wall.

3. Utilize the sph-open@umich.edu forum that reaches SPH students and others who have opted-in. Details.

4. Build a contact list of people likely to show up at your events. Suggest also that they subscribe to the SPH online calendar's RSS feed for news about upcoming events.

5. Contact the Office of Communications at for assistance publicizing your events via SPH web home page headlines, announcements to media, and the e-newsletter news@sph.

6. Send major-event announcements to the University Record, the Ann Arbor Observer, and the ASPH Friday Letter.

7. Request major-event display space in the SPH Crossroads display cases (see above).

Press Release Boilerplate

The University of Michigan School of Public Health has been working to promote health and prevent disease since 1941, and is consistently ranked among the top five schools in the country. Faculty and students in the school's five academic departments and dozens of collaborative centers and institutes are forging new solutions to the complex health challenges of today, including chronic disease, health care quality and finance, emerging genetic technologies, climate change, socioeconomic inequalities and their impact on health, infectious disease, and the globalization of health. Whether making new discoveries in the lab or researching and educating in the field, our faculty, students, and alumni are deployed around the globe to promote and protect our health.